How to load an assembly without using Assembly.Load?

Question

Is it possible to do this by streaming the assembly into memory? If so, how does one do this?

Reason:

I don\'t want to lock the dll that\'s loaded. I want to

Answer 1

It can be done by an overload of Load using byte array. You need to read the assembly bytes before the load and it won't lock the file:

byte[] readAllBytes = File.ReadAllBytes("path");
Assembly assembly = Assembly.Load(readAllBytes);